Claire Rousay + Matchess: Explorations of Sound
Sat, Jul 23
|Epsilon Spires
A deep-listening experience of embodied sensory perception to engage with skepticism and belief in the healing effects of sound. Claire Rousay and Matchess create fragile, surprising, and intimate compositions that illuminate and explode emotional significance in the minutiae of everyday life.
Time & Location
Jul 23, 2022, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM EDT
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Doors 8pm, Performances start shortly after 8:35pm, please plan to arrive within that window of time to enjoy a refreshment, experience the art exhibition, and choose your seat to best avoid disrupting the performances. Thanks!
Claire Rousay is a sound artist and percussionist currently based in San Antonio, Texas. Her performances and recordings explore queerness, human relationships, and self-perception with music that zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life — voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers, and conversations — exploding their significance. Rousay paints pictures of life with raw sound; fragile, surprising, and intimately beautiful.
"She turns found sounds into musique concrète that locates grains of emotion in the mundane — a car door slamming, a lighter igniting, the plink of an Apple keyboard mid-text. What a songwriter might convey in poetry, Rousay evokes with raw audio. You could call it sound art, but it’s viscerally…
Tickets
Claire Rousay & Matchess
Admission for one to Explorations of Sound: Claire Rousay + Matchess. Refreshments will be provided. Please choose your seating with respect for others and let us know if you require special arrangements. $2 from every ticket goes directly towards the historic preservation of the venue. Thank you for your support! Enjoy the program!
$20.00
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